Theo de Raadt zu den Lizenz-Problemen

Theo de Raadt äußert sich auf der misc-OpenBSD-Mailingliste zu den kürzlichen Lizenz- und Copyright-Verstössen im Atheros Linuxtreiber.

“I stopped making public statements in the recent controversy because Eben Moglen started working behind the scenes to 'improve' what Linux people are doing wrong with licensing, and he asked me to give him pause, so his team could work. Honestly, I was greatly troubled by the situation, because even people like Alan Cox were giving other Linux developers advice to … break the law. And furthermore, there are even greater potential risks for how the various communities interact.
For the record — I was right and the Linux developers cannot change the licenses in any of those ways proposed in those diffs, or that conversation (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/28/157).” […]

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